Has this ever happened to you? When you're almost done with an anime and you found out it has two or more seasons? I just found out Galaxy Angel has four seasons and what's surprising is that there's 101 episodes left. I have never seen a moe style anime with that many episodes. I thought they were always short with 26 episodes. Actually to be honest, I didn't realized it was a moe anime until now. I think the same thing happened with School Rumble. I didn't realized it was moe until I finished it.

It seems like I can only handle Sci-Fi or any variation of it like Cyberpunk or Biopunk. I also don't like comedy very much. I've tried to watch FLCL and Baccano knowing that those two serials are good and just couldn't get into it.

Sailor Moon seems to be the only exception along with maybe some feature film releases, but the female protagonists and me watching those while I was younger seems to be the primary cause of that.

I'm on to Hellsing Ultimate at the moment. Trying to watch as much as I can before school starts up again.

You can try and go to Otaku Streamers. It has a surprise me button and picks a random anime. I watch whatever it gives me, that has been dubbed. You'll have to register to use it, which I don't understand why, because it's not like I'm going to use the site for anything else.

Edit: I just remembered the donation bar at the top right of the site. They must be forcing you to register in hopes that you'll donate.

Dude, if you have a PS2/fat 3 or a Vita, just play the game. The anime is a fairly good adaption to the game and leaves the story almost completely intact. But you're really going to miss on the richness of it if you don't play the game before the show just spoils it for you. I know that you may not have 90+ hours to devote to it. And it might take you months to finish. But it will be so worth it for you. Trust me.

Dude, if you have a PS2/fat 3 or a Vita, just play the game. The anime is a fairly good adaption to the game and leaves the story almost completely intact. But you're really going to miss on the richness of it if you don't play the game before the show just spoils it for you. I know that you may not have 90+ hours to devote to it. And it might take you months to finish. But it will be so worth it for you. Trust me.

would it spoil someone like me who's only played the original ps1 Persona game? because I am interested in this anime too since I enjoyed the game

Dude, if you have a PS2/fat 3 or a Vita, just play the game. The anime is a fairly good adaption to the game and leaves the story almost completely intact. But you're really going to miss on the richness of it if you don't play the game before the show just spoils it for you. I know that you may not have 90+ hours to devote to it. And it might take you months to finish. But it will be so worth it for you. Trust me.

You act as if this anime is as bad as Persona Trinity Soul was plus how do you know that he hasn't played the game? For all we know he probably has.

I'm erring on the side of caution in assuming that he didn't. In fact, I've run into a ton of people online that watched the show without even being familiar that a game even exists.

I didn't say that the show was bad. The only thing that I'm saying is that it's harder to care about the characters (both major and minor) if you aren't interacting with them yourself and are pushing the story about five times faster then the game did. Hell, the Summer Festival portion of the show just shoehorns about half of the social links in the game just to acknowledge that they exist.

I sort of wish that this show was handled more like Valkyria Chronicles since it didn't make itself a complete carbon copy of the game. If you've played the game first and then watched the show, you'd notice a lot of small changes in the story to keep the show fresh even if those changes happened to make an already bad story worse. You wouldn't feel cheated if you watched the show first and then picked up the game.

But with Persona 4, the show is more of a port then an adaption. If you were to watch the show first, there wouldn't be a whole lot of incentive to play the game (90+ hours, mind you) since little to nothing is changed. I'd compare this experience to watching your favorite movie on a little flip phone rather then watching it in a theater. You're cheating yourself of the full experience.

Prince Rose: Nothing references Persona 1 in this day and age. You'll see small references to 3, but that's it. In fact, nothing links any of the five games together (Persona 2 had two games) except vague references of the previous game. If they didn't have them, this series would follow the same common tread as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Grandia in the games having nothing to do with each other.

Oh, I've been wanting to see that one for a long time. Where did you watch it? Were you dutiful and bought the DVDs or do have you a link you might slip to me?

I'm (still) in the middle of Future Diary and I think I should rewatch Madoka Magica and BSSM. Woudln't hurt to see Elfen Lied again, either. Those three are my favourite animes.

I have yet to watch Madoka Magica, but I've heard good things about it. I found Kara no Kyōkai on youtube. I'll go ahead and PM you the links.

Let me know what you think of it once you're done.

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You can try and go to Otaku Streamers. It has a surprise me button and picks a random anime.

I might try that. I've been using amazon and IMDB as a source for recommendations. I just type in something I know I like and then view what other people bought, or with IMDB what other people also searched for. It's been working pretty well for me thus far.